- Ph.D., Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
- M.A., Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
- B.A., Anthropology, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
- Clinical Pastoral Education, Stanford Hospital and Clinics, Stanford, CA
Feryal Salem
Associate Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies
Background
Biography
Dr. Feryal Salem is Associate Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies, as well as Director of the Master of Divinity in Islamic Studies and Muslim Chaplaincy programs. Her research interests include Islamic philosophy and theology in the post-classical period, interfaith dialogue, and the development of Muslim thought in the contemporary era as it came into conversation with aspects of modernity. Dr. Salem is the author of The Emergence of Early Sufi Piety and Sunn墨 Scholasticism: 士Abdall膩h b. al-Mub膩rak and the Formation of Sunni Identity in the Second Islamic Century (2016) published by Brill in its prestigious 鈥淚slamic History and Civilization鈥� series. She was recently named one of 鈥溾�� by CNN for her work in higher education. Dr. Salem serves on a number of professional boards across the country and regularly travels internationally to engage in scholarship on Islam with academics from a range of diverse institutions.
Dr. Salem previously taught at Hartford Seminary where she was Assistant Professor of Islamic Scriptures and Co-Director of its Islamic Chaplaincy Program. She received her Ph.D. in Islamic studies from the University of Chicago鈥檚 Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations.